Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Damon Dash

I know how cool I look when I look in the mirror.

I'm not a mogul; I'm a tycoon.

It's important to be enlightened.

What I've been noticing with the milennials is that they'll pay for quality.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

My delivery can be intense, but it's intense because I need to be heard. I know that people don't usually listen, as it relates to constructive criticism, without getting offended. So, I speak my mind with an attitude that I don't care if you get offended; I just want you to get the message.

Look at my life. I ain't got nothing to be mad about.

There's certain lines you just don't cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.

I'm sick of talking about it. I wanna talk about something else. No more Jay Z questions. I answered them.

I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It's important if you want to create a successful brand.

The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.

Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.

I don't believe in bullying in any form, but especially not on my children.

If you remember 'The Best of Both Worlds,' you don't see my name on that... I never wanted no part of that.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.

I think I'm extraordinarily motivated.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

I think Jay-Z is probably my best student, and I can say that he listens, and that's what always made him special.

Everyone I put in business, I must've taught them something. They all have reaped the benefits of it. A lot of them haven't done right by me, but it's all gravy.

It's important for people to believe in themselves.

A 'Roc-A-Fella purist' is me.

When I had daughters, I realized that I wouldn't never do anything to a girl that I wouldn't want done to my own daughter.

In urban culture, Larry Davis is something of a legend.

Freedom is priceless.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.

I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before us. I think it's the fact that people like Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and people like that fought for us to have the freedom to do and say what we want and have the opportunity to make money.

I work to go on vacation. Hopefully, the more money I make, my vacations will get a little longer to the point where they last a year.

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.

I monetized my life so I never do anything that I don't like or that I'm not participating in 100 percent.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

It's hard not to be confident when you put in business the biggest black male in comedy, Kevin Hart. I know I took him off a stage and put him in his first four movies. I know I did that.

I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I'm going to tell you the truth, I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and we'll all move forward.

I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

No one's taken anything from me.

Those people are corny. You think I'm rolling to a club with Lyor Cohen or John Meneilly?

I was in 'Fiesta,' but only because Aaliyah said she wanted me to do it that way.

Lee Daniels, even though he owes me $2 million, I picked that. I put him in business.

It's funny: when the press knows someone's gonna say something stupid, they're quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

A real man won't ask or answer questions about another man's money.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

I'm a true businessman.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

I got cribs all over the place and offices all over the place, and sometimes I lose track of my stuff.

If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don't know what you expect.

I fire lawyers frequently.

I have been diabetic since I was young.

'Hustle & Flow' came out, and I was really rooting for 'Hustle & Flow' because, you know, it was a hip-hop movie, and it was a good movie. It was well acted.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.

I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people's stuff if I have a point of view?

I'm never gonna owe money because every time I get a dollar, I put it into another business, whether it's to buy goods or develop other companies. You don't have money; you have companies. That's one business model. That's mine. And I only associate with other people that are putting up their own money, 'cause they're the only ones that can relate.

Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it's not going to be for everybody.

I'm not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude's doing.